Alexei Shulgin
Artist, curator and musician living between Moscow and London
He established the Immediate Photography group in 1988 and started his career in this area of study. In 1990 he shifted his interest to the Internet and founded, in 1995, Moscow WWWArt Centre, collaborating with many artists from London and Slovenia. In 1997 he invented Form Art and started the Easylife website. In 1998 he founded the 386 DX cyberpunk band, which has given over 100 performances worldwide. He curated several editions of the Readme festival, aimed at supporting and producing software art projects. In 1999, Shulgin became webmaster at FUFME, Inc. Since 2005, he is co-organizer of Electroboutique, an art production company and, since 2007, he lectures at the Moscow Rodchenko School for Photography and Multimedia.
